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Immanuel Kant

Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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Easy Greatness Philosophy
What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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Emotion Ourselves Relationship Separate
The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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Freedom Man Release Religion
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
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Bad Philosophy Protection Weakness
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Discipline Himself Man Nature Wild
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Beautiful See
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Humanity Philosophy
Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.
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Man Moral Potential Purpose Reality Wild
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge Ourselves
The history of nature, begins with good, for it is God’s work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man’s work.
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Freedom God History Man Nature
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Hope Myself
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
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Independent Man Understand
Since the human race’s natural end is to make steady cultural progress, its moral end is to be conceived as progressing toward the better. And this progress may well be occasionally interrupted, but it will never be broken off.
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Break End Human Race
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Man Spiritual
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
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Existence Man Philosophy Reason
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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Hands Perspective See
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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Book Goodness Mindset Past Reading
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Art Purpose

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